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  Robotics

  Atlas Closer to Deployment on Factory Floors

  The process of the humanoid robot Atlas, developed by Hyundai Motor Group’s robotics affiliate Boston Dynamics, carrying a refrigerator, as revealed in a YouTube video on the 18th (local time). Atlas bent its knees and lifted the refrigerator with both arms, then rotated only its upper body 180 degr

  2026.05.19
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  Persona AI

  Persona AI Chosen to Lead Korea’s Generative AI Talent Program

  PersonaAI consortium structure diagram. Provided by PersonaAI PersonaAI (CEO Yoo Seung-jae) announced on the 18th that it has been selected as the lead institution for the “Generative AI Leading Talent Training Project” promoted by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the Institute of Information & C

  2026.05.18
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  Digital Innovation

  In AI Era, Focus on Profit-Driven Operations

  A panoramic view of “KAIROS,” a manufacturing physical AI testbed built by Professor Jang Young-jae’s team at KAIST and unveiled this March. It is a demonstration space that integrates robots, sensors, equipment, and digital twins into a single operating system for unified control, and attracted att

  2026.05.18
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  Robotics

  ‘Dark Factories, We’ll Lead’ With New Collaborative Robots

  On 6 May, at VISCAT’s office in Seocho-gu, Seoul, CEO Ko Dong-uk explains that the “knowledge map”-based autonomous factory operation platform is “a brain that enables flexible factory operation without hallucination phenomena.” VISCAT expects it to become the core technology for dark factories, whi

  2026.05.16
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  Robotics

  “We’ll Speed Humanoid Robot Push” … WeRobotics Raises KRW 95 Billion

  Humanoid ‘ALLEX’ of Wero Robotics, currently under development with the goal of realizing human-level manipulation intelligence. Courtesy of Wero Robotics Wero Robotics has successfully secured large-scale capital, accelerating the establishment of its own technology ecosystem. Wero Robotics announc

  2026.05.15
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  Tech

  Perovskite Breakthrough Yields 27.6% Solar Efficiency

  Perovskite, used as a next-generation solar cell material. Two different cations and anions combine in a 1:1:3 ratio. A joint research team from Korea and China has achieved certification of a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 27.6% for a next-generation perovskite single-junction solar cell, rea

  2026.05.15
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  Startup

  POSCO Holdings, KDB Sign Pact to Boost Battery Startups

  POSCO Holdings on the 14th signed a business agreement at Ground Gwangyang with Korea Development Bank to revitalize the local venture ecosystem. From third left, Lee Bong-hee, Senior Executive Vice President of Korea Development Bank, and from fourth left, Lee Joo-tae, President of POSCO Holdings.

  2026.05.14
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  EduTech

  Creverse Speeds Edtech Push With AI, Mideast, Academia

  Creverse (Co-CEOs Lee Dong-hoon and Kim Hyung-jun) is accelerating the expansion of its edtech business, following the award of a government AI project and efforts to establish an academic-based verification framework. Creverse stated, “The contract for the ‘AI Computing Demonstration Infrastructure

  2026.05.13
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  Persona AI

  Persona AI Joins KEPCO Alliance for Public, Energy AX Market

  Participants at the KEPCO AI Council kick-off event on the 8th. Provided by PersonaAI PersonaAI (CEO Yoo Seung-jae) has joined the “KEPCO Energy AI Partners,” a private-sector council led by Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) to accelerate AX in the power industry, as a key participant and has

  2026.05.13
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  Quantum Technology

  Quantum Is Next Battleground After AI

  Lee Dong-heon, president of the Korean Quantum Information Science Society (left), and Han Sang-wook, head of the Quantum Application Research Program at KIST, are interviewed at the Dong-A Ilbo headquarters in Jongno-gu, Seoul, on the morning of the 7th. Photo by reporter Lee Han-gyul always@donga.

  2026.05.13